IACMI – The Composites Institute (Knoxville, Tenn., U.S.) announces its manufacturing and machining workforce training program, America’s Cutting Edge (ACE, Miamisburg, Ohio, U.S.), has surpassed 20,000 online students and 5,000 in-person boot camp participants. Since its launch in 2020, ACE has grown steadily each year, reaching a record number...
Conversations about digital transformation often focus on technology. Advancements in AI, software, the Internet of Things (IoT) and automation are supposed to, almost magically, transform legacy and manual processes into smarter, connected systems.
So how’s that working out? Not well, by many accounts.
Dozens of research reports detail the plague...
America Makes, Youngstown, Ohio, and the National Center for Defense Manufacturing and Machining (NCDMM) announced two new project calls worth over $35 million. Both are funded by the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense, Manufacturing Technology Office (OSD ManTech).
For decades, scaling the bioeconomy has meant building bigger and bigger facilities.
Larger fermentors. Larger separation trains. More pumps, columns, centrifuges, and stainless-steel piping. Each step adds cost, complexity, and risk. For startups trying to commercialize a new biological process, the most dangerous obstacle often isn’t engineering...
When Anthropic open-sourced the Model Context Protocol (MCP) late last year, it sent shockwaves through the industrial software ecosystem. Anthropic initiated a new wave of modernization by providing a standardized “universal translator” that allows AI agents to securely connect to enterprise data sources. In effect, it solved a major connectivity...
